Thursday, December 30, 2004

Shifty, very shifty

Yahoo is now using something called "Web Beacons" to track
Yahoo Group users around the net and see what you're doing and where you
are going - similar to cookies. Yahoo is recording every website and every
group you visit. Take a look at their updated privacy statement:
Yahoo privacy policy

That will bring you to a paragraph entitled "Outside the Yahoo Network." In
this section you'll see a little "click here to opt out" link that will let you
"opt-out"
of their new method of snooping.

Once you have clicked that link, you are exempted.

Notice the "Success" message on the top of the next page.
Be careful because on that page there is a "Cancel Opt-out" button that, if
clicked, will *undo** the opt-out.


Thanks goto a friend for this info, thanks you *jerk*.

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